The gross public expenditure in respect of operations funded under this Operational Programme (i.e. the Exchequer and Structural funds contribution) will be provided annually in the voted expenditure of the appropriate Government Department and/or Intermediary Body. Payments will ordinarily issue to the Beneficiary bodies on the basis of certified expenditure returns furnished by them. Beneficiary bodies commission operations and issue payments to final recipients as specified in grant contracts, having carried out transaction checks and on the basis of certified claims.
The respective roles of Beneficiary bodies, Intermediary bodies, the Managing Authority and the Certifying Authority in the certification of eligible expenditure and its recoupment from the EU for the benefit of the Irish Exchequer are set out in section 8.5
